The Real Fake Birds of Abu Dhabi
an interactive comic about the birdsong speakers hidden in NYU Abu Dhabi's palm trees. hand-coded, 2019.
from the comican interactive online comic about NYU Abu Dhabi's palm-tree birds conspiracy: there are speakers in the palms playing birdsong, everyone knows, nobody talks about it. the comic does.
interactive designer and front-end developer: story, illustrations, gif animation in Photoshop, and the page itself in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with buttons and a nav bar that move you through it.
communications lab, 2019. the first thing i hand-coded that people actually read, and the reason this site is hand-coded too.
a campus mystery told as a comic you click through: what are the speakers in the palm trees for, who put them there, and why does everyone pretend the birds are real?
- buttons and a nav bar to progress: the reader sets the pace, like turning pages
- gifs for character moments, stills for everything else, so motion means something
- illustrationcharacters drawn, key moments animated into gifs in Photoshop.
- the pagehand-written HTML and CSS for the layout; JavaScript for the buttons, the nav bar, and the progression.
- publishinghosted on GitHub pages, still live six years later.